What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” said the driver. “I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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